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RooCat · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

Please be patient with me as I'm just learning about this stuff of necessity.

I currently have 2 antennas, one pointed at a town 86 miles away and the other pointed between a mountain pass indirectly picking up that town about 6 miles away. Both antennas are antiques as is the amp system which all worked very well until the two splitter/conversion/balun? boxes cracked due to age and weather.

Each antenna has a preamp (Blonder Tongue) with twin lead output. The first box combines both twin leads into a single twin lead. The second box converts the twin lead into coax. I replaced that box with a RS indoor coax to twin lead (uhf and vhf are separate sides). This connection alone cleared up quite a bit of the reception problems but I only connected to the vhf side since there is only one twin lead. I did speak to Blonder Tongue but they were unable to find an old enough catalogue to look up the twin lead to coax box and have no idea of what to replace it with. I also need to replace the duel twin lead to single twin lead component since that box is also cracked and I'm sure the connection is deteriorated. The amp in the house works just fine.

Does this need to be in two stages as it currently is? Is there one converter I can use instead of the two? What are the correct combiners to use for each stage, especially for outdoors use? I really don't want to replace the whole thing if there is a way to get the job done with what is on the market today.

A local electronics store said that they have a preamp that will go from my 2 antennas twin leads to coax but I'll probably have to bypass the house amp or get feedback.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, RC

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